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You need a patched boot disk, and you'll have to patch some other stuff too: http://peipa.essex.ac.uk/html/linux-thinkpad.html At 10:00 AM 4/8/95 -0400, Eugene Fiume wrote: >I'm sure I have a very basic problem here. I have the Yggdrasil Plug-and-Play >Linux CDROM and boot floppy. I suspect some might say that's my problem! > >When I try to boot my 755CE from that boot floppy, I get the first two >letters of the expected "LILO", and then it hangs. If I try to "runlinux" >from the CDROM (Raven CD-Note PCMCIA-SCSI interface), I get a DOS message >saying that I am trying to perform a "privileged" operation. The >"runlinux" command just tries to load linux boot code above the DOS driver >memory so that it can use them. > >Is there a change I should be making to my configuration to allow such a >"privileged" operation? I am using the standard config.sys etc., except >that I have installed the CDROM and an ethernet network card driver. > >Any ideas why the boot floppy hangs the machine? To make certain my >bootfloppy was current, I remade it, but got the same result. > >An old UNIX geek who doesn't know the first thing about DOS and Windows... >Eugene Fiume. > > ________________________________________________________________________ After seven years, I was sent home to my family. Little man, I give the watch to you.____jesse@spine.com____http://www.hooked.net/bin/jesse.home